Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Robbins

This is trespass quare clausum fregit, brought by appellee, against the appellant corporation, and wherein she recovered verdict and judgment for §>1100 damages in the Cook circuit court. The judgment was afterwards affirmed in the Appellate Court.

Two questions, only, are open to our consideration upon this further appeal, and both of them arise out of an instruction or direction that was given by the trial court to the jury in response to an inquiry from its foreman, after the submission of the case to the jury and it had retired to consider of its verdict. The first of these questions is,…